Re: [PATCH/RFC] gpio: em: Use dynamic allocation of GPIOs

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> · Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:34:26 +0100

On Monday 17 November 2014 15:30:32 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Use dynamic allocation of GPIOs instead of looking at the gpio%u alias
> in DT.
> ---
>   - Is this correct? Not having to care about the alias would simplify the
>     to-be-written DT binding documentation.
>   - Completely untested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

This will obviously break any user that expects a particular gpio
number, in particular board files, but I guess also user space
that tries to access the gpios through sysfs.

If you don't have any of those, I guess it's correct.

	Arnd
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